Ye Jingzhong was taken aback by those words, but as he considered them, he realized that the other party's sudden voice transmission did not necessarily mean he truly valued him.
The Lineage elders' most frequent advice was to think three times before acting.
He felt he had already exposed a flaw earlier. How could he not weigh things carefully now?
"My lord, this lowly one's strength is lacking. I nearly lost my life just now. I must have made a fool of myself before you!"
After repeated consideration, Ye Jingzhong worried that the other party had found his actions surprising and was deliberately testing him, so he spoke with an embarrassed expression.
He continued diligently activating his formation flag and pouring true essence into it, not daring to slack off.
It was as though he feared the centurion would accuse him of shirking battle again.
Sure enough, after he said that, the other party neither looked at him again nor sent any further voice transmissions.
Naturally, Ye Jingzhong made no further moves either.
But for him, seeing those vast swarms of Azure Sea Wild Locusts was nothing short of torment.
As an insect cultivator, he naturally longed to obtain new spirit insects and improve the strength of those he already possessed.
Although he had collected some Azure Sea Wild Locust corpses, that was clearly far from enough.
Moreover, most of the corpses he had collected were low-stage ones. Not a single one was at the sixth stage.
With his full strength, even though this was only his avatar, his haul would certainly be no worse than that of spirit transformation middle stage cultivators, or even ordinary spirit transformation late stage cultivators.
After all, spirit insects were his specialty.
However, he no longer had time to dwell on such thoughts. As